How to Create a Cluster on Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

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Instructions on how to create a Microsoft AKS environment that is ready to install Gitpod are located in the gitpod-io/gitpod-microsoft-aks-guide repository on GitHub. The installation process takes around twenty minutes. In the end, the following resources are created:

• An Microsoft AKS cluster running Kubernetes v1.21.
• An Microsoft Azure load balancer.
• An Microsoft Azure DNS zone.
• An Microsoft Azure container registry.
• MySQL will be provided by Helm under #5508 solved.
• Minio will be used until Microsoft Azure storage gateway is configured.
• Installation of calico as CNI and NetworkPolicy implementation
• Installation of cert-manager for self-signed SSL certificates

Upon completion, this script will print the config for the resources created (including passwords) and what is the next relevant step in the installation process. Note that you will be able to skip steps 2 and 3 in the getting started guide because the script can do these steps for you.